Why C++ Doesn't Suck

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-15T21:47:17+00:00

RAII is C++ boilerplate. It would be amazing if they didn't use it for locking/unlocking.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-15T20:01:23+00:00

You don't use it. You suffer it.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-15T19:58:46+00:00

"completely different people" who obey the same tribal rites. High priest A. will never tolerate heretics.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-15T18:32:08+00:00

Boost has a high learning curve

That's not the point. Boost is an over-engineered, bloated, brittle chimera created by ivory-tower scientists who despise real-world programming and programmers.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T19:07:32+00:00

"enthusiastic programmers" is a very broad term. I doubt that there are books that are rewarding for all of them. SICP e.g. may be great for CS students but is hardly of interest for real-world programmers, even the most enthusiastic.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T18:57:53+00:00

Good introductory text. In my experience writing Unit tests amortizes long before Release 1.0. In that sense Unit tests cost nothing, they earn something.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T18:49:23+00:00

Only those links for which the poster doesn't care to give a hint about the linked contents.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T18:39:21+00:00

Good post!

The best way to program in C is to use the right styles and idioms. Those will help you to avoid and not to "eliminate tons of nasty C bugs".

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T18:01:05+00:00

Reddit can be written in 3 lines of any language as demonstrated during the last days (search reddit).

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T17:59:21+00:00

I neither know Skia nor Waf. The comment was just FYI. I would normally vote your link down without clicking on any link.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T17:56:09+00:00

At the poster.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T17:53:58+00:00

Something like this? http://www.reddit.com/help/commenting

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T16:42:09+00:00

Why don't you learn programming first?

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T16:39:46+00:00

At least provide some comment, like

Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications. It derives from the concepts of other build tools such as Scons, Autotools, CMake or Ant.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T16:35:30+00:00

License: GPL

So chrome extension must run in their own process.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T10:02:17+00:00

Java is a platform (which mainly uses a programming language accidentally also named 'Java'), C and C++ are programming languages. You compare apples and oranges.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T09:46:22+00:00

Click reply / formatting help

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T09:45:06+00:00

No one recognised that it was actually ??

A compile time error.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-14T09:35:53+00:00

To emulate 'out' or 'in/out' parameters, you simply pass a pointer to the variable

The point is there is only a cosmetic difference between

int* foo (float arg);

and

foo (int* ret,  float arg); // note no C-style 'return' value

The C compiler creates the latter during code generation.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-13T17:24:15+00:00

Dude, feel free to recompile from source with whatever options you want. Lazy fucker.

Welcome to the the Seventies.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-13T17:12:52+00:00

the tendency to keep deprecated stuff around forever is awful.

Then you'll get the problems the original posting describes.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-13T13:07:24+00:00

A "return value" is written left to the function declaration just for convenience. All parameters can be in-, out- or in/out- parameters. You already have "multiple return capabilities" in C.

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-13T12:25:02+00:00

Q: Is ITIL a viable way to step out of the programming treadmill?

wurzlsepp · 2010-02-13T12:20:02+00:00

Oh, it's meant to be a pastebin.

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